Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Beautiful Visual on The Connected Teacher. I have just started reading the book after the last scheduled in my reading list for this month and I must say that this is the best of the titles I am reading in June.
The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture is the first in Castells' ground-breaking trilogy.It is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world. The book is jargon rich and it sent me searching in Google in several instances. I will soon share with you a review once I finish reading it.
However, today as I was googling something related to the concept of the information society that Castell was talking about in his book I came across this beautiful graphic labelled the networked teacher. Source: Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: The 16 Types of Social Media Personalities- Which One Are You ? With the massive uptake of social networking sites, social media has become part and parcel of our digital life.Your daily dose of social media depends on how much time you have to spend on such virtual networks.
It also depends on the purpose behind you joining them, if you are using them solely for personal and socializing goals then you might find yourself running the risk of addiction to these platforms. A distinct new breed of social media personalities has been born, according to an extensive new study by conversation experts "first direst". Which one are you? The Ultras? The Dippers? ED Tech Cheat Sheet Every Educator Should Know about. One of the perplexing things that teachers and educators encounter when trying to understand educational technology and leverage it to their classrooms is the abundance of those baffling techy terms.
Blended Learning is different from Differentiated Learning, Educational Technology might not be necessarily Instructional Technology, a Virtual Classroom is different from an Electronic Classroom or Flipped Classroom; There is also asynchronous, synchronous, and personalized learning, these and many more are but some examples of the growing terminology in this field. Edudemic has recently featured a great infographic that was originally created by Boundless. This infographic is dubbed Ed Tech Cheat Sheet and is a fabulous guide to help you learn about the important trends in educational technology. Try to print it out and stick it on your classroom wall for your students to refer to whenever need be . Please read and share. Click on the image to enlarge it. Digital Citizenship Poster for Middle and High School Classrooms.
21st century classroom. 46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom. Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences).
The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency. It’s curious they haven’t really “caught on” in schools considering how well they bridge both the old-form textbook habit of cramming tons of information into a small space, while also neatly overlapping with the dynamic and digital world. So if you want to try to make infographics–or better yet have students make them–where do you start? The 46 tools below, curated by Faisal Khan, are a good place to start. Infographies. Great Infographic Making Tools for Teachers. 1- Visual.ly This is my favorite tool.
It helps you easily create awesome infographics using pre-designed templates. It also lets you create an infographic out of any Twitter Hashtag provided you are signed in which you can do using your Twitter account. 2-Easel.ly This is another great web tool to create infographics. 3-PiktoChart I love PiktoChart and I have used it a couple of times and found it really great. 4- Infogr.am Infogr.am is an easy to use online service that lets you create, share, and discover infographics and online charts.It is also very easy to use, you can select a pre-designed template, add charts, videos and maps and within a few clicks your template is ready to go viral.
אינפוגרפיקה משאבי למידה. כל האמת על אינפוגרפיקה. Video - How To Create Infographics. 500+ Cool Infographics.